Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label Jio Phone Users' WhatsApp Love Almost Killed This Startup

Jio Phone Users WhatsApp Love Almost Killed This Startup

The Jio Phone - first announced in July, and in the market from September - is an interesting device that tries to bridge the gap between smartphones and feature phones. We noted in our review that for a very specific niche, the phone has the potential to be a major game changer. However, there's one thing that's missing from the phone - the messaging-giant WhatsApp. The app is incredibly popular in India, and so it's perhaps no surprise that a lot of people were looking for workarounds to get it up and running on the smart-feature phone. So it was not a surprise when videos showing people how to use get WhatsApp on a Jio Phone using a Web-based tool called Browserling soon went viral. Essentially, you could visit the Browserling website on the Jio Phone, and make WhatsApp think that you were visiting from a PC. This would allow you to run WhatsApp Web on the device. This sudden interest from India came as a bit of a surprise to ...